JACK CHANG, Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Working out of a Beijing office full of video game designers from around the world, Chinese-born Pin Wang and...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — If you’ve been remiss in cleaning out your email in-box, here’s some incentive: The federal government can read any emails that are more...
(Bloomberg) – Google Inc. has given fellow tech companies an ultimatum: patch your software vulnerabilities within 90 days or we’ll make them public. An elite...
(Time) – Google is awarding 2GB of extra space on Google Drive to users who complete a Security Checkup within the next week as part of a...
(BBC) – Compiled by Arbor Networks, the report looks at 10 years of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The ease with which they could...
(Capital OTC) – Following the numerous data breaches that took place in 2014, one would expect people to be more concerned about online security. However, according...
(Fox News) – Here’s a reminder of why you shouldn’t use the same password or login credentials across multiple accounts –even when it comes to...
(USA Today) – Here’s a patented winning streak: IBM has maintained the No. 1 spot among U.S. patent recipients for 22 straight years. The company...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As soon as Mark Kim found out his personal information was compromised in a data breach at...
(Ars Technica) – The security company investigating the attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has reportedly penned a letter that seemingly holds the entertainment firm blameless for...
(Engadget) – The cyber attack against Sony Pictures continues to be a major problem for the company. For one, it looks like the hackers used malware...
(TechCrunch) – Europe’s Article 29 Working Party, the body comprised of data protection representatives from individual Member States of the European Union, has now published guidelines on the...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) — Consumers and lawmakers are expressing concern about privacy after Uber said it is investigating one of its executives for allegedly...
BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — WhatsApp, the globally popular instant messaging system owned by Facebook, has begun using a powerful new encryption...
BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is once again trying to simplify its privacy policy, largely to address criticisms that it’s too...
(The Huffington Post) – You know those weird emails that try to trick you into handing over your information? Turns out they work way better...
ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Business Writers SARAH SKIDMORE SELL, AP Business Writers NEW YORK (AP) — Hackers stole 53 million email addresses in addition to customers’ card...
(Bloomberg) – Hackers have made the Internet a scary place to do business, as recent headlines attest. Big companies have been hacked. Small companies have...
(Business Today) – US banking giant JP Morgan Chase has issued updated information about a cyber attack which it suffered in August and that approximately...
SAN FRANCISCO (USA Today) – A staggering 43% of companies have experienced a data breach in the past year, an annual study on data breach...
ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Home Depot said Thursday that a data breach that lasted for months at its stores in the...
(Reuters) – Two senators asked the federal government to investigate a data breach on the payment-card processing systems of Home Depot Inc and five U.S....
MARLEY JAY, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Home Depot sank before the opening bell Tuesday after confirming that its payment systems had been...
YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — The boundary between the online and physical worlds got blurry last week when Sony’s PlayStation Network was disabled...
ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a major credit card data breach. The Atlanta-based...
